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‘Medical Imaging’
2012 Commissioned by
the art department of the AMC Amsterdam (Academic Medical Centre) |
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Peter Bogers' "Medical Imaging" shows isolated parts of the body on four
screens, placed behind each other. Four picture tubes are placed behind four
half-transparent mirrors. From front to back we see a man's head (seen from
above), an open hand, a clenched fist and a bare foot (seen from below). The
images are floating freely in space between several electronic components and
their reflections in the mirrors. We see various revolving, vibrating or
punching rhythms of motion: the fist, for example, draws back and then
strikes out powerfully, while the head is turning around, and the other hand
and the foot are moving backwards. In this constant acceleration, the
body-parts eventually run amok. Being controlled by a technology-based power
outside themselves they are catered in isolation and seem to want to escape
their predicament, without actually being able to break free from, or come
closer to, each other. The organs, which seem to be in an embryonic state of
weightlessness, are also restrained, held in quarantine, by the hardware and
software of the technology with which they are represented; it is precisely
this technology which defines their context, identity and truth. Technology
is not merely used as a presentation model, instrument, medium or shell, but
rather, is part of the content. This is an excerpt from a text written by Jorinde
Seijdel |
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VIDEO (registration at the AMC) |
